Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard Hughes was in for a resounding victory. The returns from prosperous Bergen County, a longtime Republican stronghold, wound up by giving Hughes a 49,000 majority. So it went all evening, from the slums of Jersey City to the bird-watching wards of Cape May. In all, Hughes carried 16 of the state's 21 counties and defeated Republican Challenger Wayne Dumont by 350,000 votes, the highest margin ever recorded in a New Jersey gubernatorial contest...
...which a consultant "drops in, studies the situation, and runs like hell." Engelhardt sticks around to face all the local pressures, averages four nights a week on some school stage patiently explaining his proposals. He pins down his arguments with facts, rarely retreats. When a woman at a Cape Cod meeting demanded to know what the alternatives to Engelhardt's plans were, he replied dryly: "A second-rate school system...
...landed, they found the Nauset Indians using a bright red waxy berry that seemed good to eat as well as valuable for making poul tices and preserving game. The Indians called the berry sassamanesh; the Pilgrims rechristened it the cranberry. At first confined to New England, and mainly to Cape Cod, as a diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most important fact about...
...this transformation is Ocean Spray of Hanson, Mass., which produces 85% of all the cranberries grown in the world, has annual sales of $46 million. Ocean Spray is a cooperative that distributes its earnings to a pool of 1,000 growers in Massachusetts (where the sandy-bottomed bogs of Cape Cod prove most hospitable to the berry), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington State. Formed by a series of mergers in 1930, it has taken much of the risk and uncertainty out of cranberry growing, this fall paid growers $13.99 a barrel for the 1.2 million barrels that their bogs...
...Stafford will go up in Gemini 6, rendezvous with Gemini 7 (but not dock), and then orbit the earth in formation. For all the difficulties involved in the mission, the major problems will be on the ground. NASA will have to work round the clock to prepare the Cape Kennedy launch pad for a second shot in such a short time, and the Navy must stand ready to handle two recovery operations within 90 minutes of each other...